This tour aims to provide teaching staff from Hong Kong-based primary and secondary schools with on-site guidance to the Special Exhibition The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Picasso for Asia—A Conversation, highlighting works co-selected by M+ Learning Curators and members of the Teacher Roundtable. It is recommended especially for visual arts teachers. Teachers from other subjects are also welcome to attend together for ideas exchange.

Exclusively sponsored by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust under the ‘Jockey Club Community Outreach and Arts Education Programmes’.

➔ Timeslots in March are now full. Booking method of timeslots in July will be announced in early June 2025.

Tour Date and Time (Primary School):
21 March 2025, Friday (15:30–16:15* or 16:45–17:30*),

22 March 2025, Saturday (10:00–10:45 or 11:15–12:00*) and

28 March 2025, Friday (15:30–16:15 or 16:45–17:30)

Tour Date and Time (Secondary School):

22 March 2025, Saturday (10:00–10:45* or 11:15–12:00),

29 March 2025, Saturday (11:00–11:45) and

4 July 2025, Friday (15:30–16:15* or 16:45–17:30*)

Duration: 45 min. per session. Teachers with successful registration can visit all galleries (including special exhibitions) freely after the tour.

Language: Cantonese, simultaneous interpretation service in English and Mandarin provided in selected sessions (*).

Fee: Free of charge for teaching staff from Hong Kong-based primary and secondary schools.

No. of participants: Each school can only reserve a maximum of three quotas. Limited availability, first-come first-served.

Timeslots in March are now full.
Booking Submission:
Starting from 11 February 2025 at 16:00

Booking Deadline:
14 February 2025 at 18:00

Result Announcement Date:
25 February 2025

The tour especially for primary school teachers will explore Pablo Picasso’s diverse artistic practice. By tracing the artist’s portrait drawings from his Blue Period and his Cubist works, the application of visual elements and art-making techniques have already become common teaching topics covered in the school curriculum of visual arts education. In today’s world of diverse creative expression, what can we still learn from Picasso’s creative thinking and artistic practice?

M+ Educators will guide participants through Picasso’s sculptures and ink paintings, which are rarely on view in Asia, to offer a more comprehensive understanding of Picasso as a representative figure of modern Western art history. At the end of the tour, each participating teacher will receive a self-directed learning toolkit and is welcome to apply the guiding questions and activities for classroom discussions or art-making activities with students.

For secondary school teachers, the tour will analyse Picasso’s works from different periods and the ground-breaking artistic concepts he created and mastered within his practice, re-examining the lasting impact he had on society and culture.

Participants will walk alongside M+ Educators, analysing and comparing works by Picasso and other Asian contemporary artists. Together they will explore how this avant-garde artist played a crucial role in the development of contemporary art and continues to influence artistic creations across different generations and regions, expanding visitors’ imagination of art.

Teacher’s Day for the 2024/25 School Year will be held on 4 July 2025, featuring free talks and exhibition guided tours for participants to preview M+ school programmes for the 2025/26 school year. Interested teachers are encouraged to save the date. Details will be announced in the end of May 2025.

Teacher’s Day for the 2023/24 School Year has been completed on 5 July 2024.

Teacher's Day provides a variety of activities for teachers to plan and customize their museum visit for professional development according to their learning needs. The activities on Teacher's Day include sharing sessions of teaching plans of M+ School Programmes, guided tours, open classrooms, and teacher workshops specially designed for the Teacher Professional Development Day. The museum aims to provide a platform for teachers, museum curators, and educators to learn from each other, fostering a comprehensive understanding of teaching and learning strategies.

This programme is specifically designed for local primary and secondary school teachers and is recommended for heads of curriculum development, life-wide learning coordinators, teacher professional development activity planners. Our museum also encourages visual arts teachers to invite teachers from other subjects to attend together. Prior experience in artistic practices is not required.

The workshops are recommended for school-wide participation of principals and teachers from Hong Kong-based primary and secondary schools. Prior experience in artistic practices is not required.

➔ Apply and Purchase Tickets Now

Date: Every Tuesday to Friday between 17 September 2024 and 11 July 2025, except for public holidays

Time: 10:15–13:00 or 14:30–17:15

Duration: 165 min.

Language: Cantonese or English

Fee: General Admission ticket holders may apply for a free workshop as a group and visit all galleries (excluding Special Exhibition) freely on the day of museum visit.

No. of participants: 75 to 80 teachers

Schools should submit the application and purchase tickets via the link below at least two months before the preferred programme date. We will respond via email within 10 working days after your submission for further arrangement. 75 tickets should be purchased even if the number of participants is less than this amount. If special arrangement is required, please contact us via email at learn@mplus.org.hk.

There is often more than one answer to a question in life. The museum is an open environment, where different perspectives and mindsets coincide, and everyone can freely engage in different ideas in their own ways. The museum is more than a place to collect and exhibit works of art. Our sparks of creativity are what enliven the museum.

This workshop follows the theme of multi-perspective thinking. It consists of the Creative Gallery Interpretation Experience and Printmaking. Participating teachers will join Artist, M+ Learning Curators and Educators to think out of the box and reach beyond conventional boundaries.

As a lead-in to the activities, participants will experience a human library experience, where three M+ Educators from different professions and backgrounds will take turns in different galleries to share their stories of encountering M+ Collection, guiding participants to discover the value and significance of visual culture objects from the unique perspective of their life experiences.

Afterwards, M+ Learning Curator and Artist be in dialogue, sharing how artists' personality traits and creative thinking can be applied to different situations in daily life. The Artist will also invite participants to use simple drawing tools to create a printmaking artwork, thereby reflecting on more questions that without standard answers, and continuing the exploration experience in the galleries.

The participants’ willingness to learn helps enrich the museum’s collections and curatorial expertise. Their exchange with M+ Educators and artists brings forth deeper questions—what can we learn at the museum apart from what it intends to teach us? We believe that if we are willing to ask questions and respond without drawing on existing knowledge both inside and outside the museum, it will foster multi-perspective thinking in our learning community.

Printmaking is led by local artist and illustrator Kinchoi Lam and printmaking artist Wahyan Au.

Kinchoi Lam obtained a masters degree in children’s book illustration at Anglia Ruskin University in England. His work brings everyone with him to travel around the world and explore different cultures and stories in life. With his first picture book, Little Big Tram, he won the First Prize in the Creative Writing in Chinese Award in 2016 and the Hong Kong Publishing Biennial Award in 2019. Lam’s recent picture book publications include Journey to Mars (2021), ​The Unexpected Journey of Little Star (2022) and Nomads: Life on the Move (2022).

Wahyan Au graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in Belgium. She has taught at local secondary schools and worked as an art educator for over a decade. She is also the co-founder of the local printmaking studio Printhow. Her works include comics, Me1 World (2014–2022), printmaking story book, Dreams of a Toad (2019) and comics, Praying Mantis Combat (2021). Her works often carry prophetic qualities, blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality, and employing a narrative structure rich in surreal imagery to explore the inner landscape, which has been published in local cultural magazines such as Sunday Ming Pao, Ming Pao Weekly, Fleurs des Lettres, and City Magazine, and have been exhibited in Spain, Belgium, and Norway.